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♪ Tallyman, Tallyman, // He keeps count. ♪ // ♪ Tallyman, Tallyman, // Don't step out. ♪ // ♪ If you're good ♪ // ♪ Then he pays. ♪ // ♪ If you're not ♪ // ♪ Then he slays. ♪
— Magical nursery rhyme about the Tallyman[src]


Quentin Moore[2], primarily known as The Tallyman, was a mentally unstable gremlin who used a figure from an old magical nursery rhyme to terrorize the magical community and turn them against the Vera-Danso Charmed Ones.

History[]

Early Life[]

Quentin was born into a proud family of gremlins and had a mother and an older brother. From birth, his abilities for technopathy were very limited, which made him an outsider even in his own family.

At the age of 18, he was physically and mentally injured when his brother, Nolan Moore, tried to help him develop his abilities. Quentin shattered his arm, but later, in an unknown way, he was able to restore it.[3]

In adulthood, sometime between 2021 and 2022, he killed his brother in their family home. However, being already mentally unstable, he could not let the dead brother go. Quentin mummified Nolan's corpse, after which, wanting to appear bigger and stronger than he is, he assumed the alias "The Tallyman", a character from a nursery rhyme, and began to terrorize the magical community while influenced by Inara under the guise of "the Lost One".[2] At some point, the Lost One moved into Nolan's corpse and began talking to Quentin, setting him up to do whatever she says. It is unknown what and how the "monster" spoke, but Quentin apparently believed that he was talking to his dead brother. This could possibly be another reason for Quentin mummifying his brother's corpse. It seems that it was at the suggestion of the Lost One that Quentin decided to break one of his principles and go against the Vera-Danso Charmed Ones.[2] The Tallyman was behind various misfortunes like an elf buried alive, burnt satyr vineyards and razor blades in the school lunches of goblins. There was no specific pattern other than it always involving non-demon and non-witch magical beings.[4]

At some point, he showed up at the Blue Camellia club in search of cursed gold, offering a boatload for it. The leprechaun Frank liked his offer and the Tallyman became one of his clients.[1] He presumably obtained the Corruption Coins from Frank.

Sometime before her Pixie Fledging Ceremony, the woodland pixie Annie was worried she was not going to receive her wings and was told of an unknown entity known as the Tallyman. The Tallyman told her that he would ensure she received her wings in exchange for her using his coin as the offering for the Goddess of Flight at her ceremony. Annie obliviously took the deal, unaware of the consequences it would return, and was told that she was not allowed to speak his name, unless she wanted "terrible things" to happen.[5]

Throughout the Series[]

In "Not That Girl", Annie offered the coin given to her by the Tallyman to the Goddess of Flight, however the ceremony went horribly wrong as she began to convulse, scream violently, and soon developed horrible bat-like wings instead of traditional pixie wings. After the disastrous Pixie Fledging Ceremony, Chloe came to her sister and wondered what happened. Annie recounted her interaction with the Tallyman, but refused to say his name out of fear of what would happen. Chloe handed her a pen and paper, figuring that Annie could write it down. As soon as Annie did so, however, she started bleeding from her eyes, helplessly dying in a hysterical Chloe's arms. The paper with the red inscription "The Tallyman" remained ominously lying on the floor.

In "You Can't Go Home Again", Chloe gives Jordan Chase and Harry Greenwood Annie's belongings so they can look for clues related to her death. Hints lead them to the Blue Camellia. Thanks to Roxie, Jordan and Harry learn from the leprechaun Frank information about the owner of the coin. With the help of deception, they also learned from him the address to the place where he collected the coins from the Tallyman. In the old cabin, Jordan and Harry fall into a trap and risk exploding, but Maggie Vera and Kaela Danso, who found guys in time, save them and together they leave to save Brynn. In the evening of the same day, the Tallyman comes and humming a song about himself takes his spider, who has been watching the uninvited guests of the cabin all this time.

In "Unlucky Charmed", the Tallyman traps Frank in a glass tank with a gas pump attached to it. It turned out to be a dud. However, the Tallyman doused his whisky with an explosive potion. He had also planted a lamia's egg in his house and tricked Maggie and Jordan into taking it, allowing Unnamed Lamia to track it down and attack them. The lamia also exploded after the Vera-Danso Charmed Ones realized the egg belonged to her and the Tallyman had stolen it to pit them against each other. The Tallyman later collects his spider that had watched over the whole event.

In "Ripples", Maggie and Mel Vera first meet him when they spent time at the magical spa. The Tallyman killed Robert in order to get close to Maggie in his clothes and, after a short interaction, pull out some hair from her for unknown purposes. Later, Mel ran into him near the fountain just before he poisoned the Enchanted Water Lily. Realizing that it was the Tallyman's handiwork, Mel tried to catch up with him but did not have time. Nevertheless, with the help of one of the aromatherapy rooms, she was able to see one of the Tallyman's "happy memories" associated with his brother.

In "The Sisterhood of the Traveling Sandwich", Maggie confessed to Mel that she couldn't stop thinking about the Tallyman and how his gross hands were massaging her scalp. She also finds his spider in the house and understands how he is watching them. The Tallyman is also mentioned by an unnamed troll when he condemned the Charmed Ones in his magical podcasts.

In "The Tallyman Cometh", the Tallyman has sent a music box with unhearable frequencies to the Charmed Ones. The box carried a message that conveyed how hundreds of innocents would die unless they translated the tune. When Mel and Kaela found his location, the Tallyman appeared on a large white screen and mocked them. At the Gnome Is Where the Hearth Is Hotel, the Tallyman is watching the memorial at a bar before Mel and Maggie spot him. They chase him down a corridor where he takes out a detonator and presses the button. However, Dev Banerjee's power has disabled his explosive spiders, making him mad. Then he drinks the same explosive potion that killed Frank and the lamia, and dies just after Mel and Maggie escaped.

In "Cats and Camels and Elephants, oh my…", the Tallyman's name is revealed to be Quentin when Harry enters the Veil to talk to the former's brother, Nolan Moore. His brother views him as pathetic and desperate to become bigger than what he was. Meanwhile, the Charmed Ones realize Sunny was trying to finish what Quentin started: to resurrect the Lost One by collecting a drop of blood from Mel, a bone from Kaela, and a lock of from Maggie.

In "Divine Secrets of the O.G. Sisterhood", his name is mentioned by Inara when she resurrected.

In "Be Kind. Rewind.", his voice sounded through the speakers to scare the SafeSpace visitors. This was a ruse to distract Inara so the Vera-Danso Charmed Ones could sneak into the Command Center to restore their powers.


Personality[]

The Tallyman was described as very clever, and a trickster, and a fan of puzzles, which makes it hard to kind of pin him down. He has a very ominous presence from the get-go. The Tallyman is strategic and precise. He knows who he's looking for. The Tallyman preys on the vulnerabilities of people, good people who have a lot of insecurities about the way they're living their life. He's similar to like a really bad person who gets a lot of people to do bad things. A cult leader or something.[6]

In the series, it was revealed that Quentin was a psychopath who hated being called that. He didn't like it when things didn't go the way he wanted and he didn't seem to have any fear of death since he had no problems parting with his own life. It is not known whether Quentin always had such inclinations, but in his youth he was shown to be a timid and insecure guy who dutifully did everything his brother said. It is possible that he also retained a certain sentimentality towards his family because he carried the family pocket watch with him and was worried that he lost it when he was running away from Mel and Maggie.

Physical Appearance[]

He was a white man with short brown hair and dark gray eyes. He also wears stubble and a dark hat.

Powers and Abilities[]

Basic Powers
  • Spell Casting (possibly): Presumably the Tallyman could enchant objects as he did with his black rubber duck that has became poisoned.
  • Potion Making: The Tallyman presumably has some experience in making potions. He created an explosive elixir that killed any being who drank it. He also was able to create some type of poison that infected the Enchanted Water Lily when released into its pool through a rubber duck.
Active Powers
  • Technopathy (limited): The defining power of gremlins. The Tallyman can control his electronic spiders. Unlike the rest of his species, he had limited abilities, which made him a weak link even in his own family.

Equipment[]

  • Patient Spiders: The Tallyman invented these small, spider-like devices and frequently used them to spy on his targets. They were able to record events that they witnessed. He later rigged them to explode before they were disabled by Dev.
  • Corruption Coins: The Tallyman obtained these cursed coins from the leprechaun, Frank, and used two of them to magically corrupt two docile beings.
  • Poison-Releasing Rubber Duck: Quentin used a rubber duck to poison the fountain of the Enchanted Water Lily at Ripples, magical spa. The poison caused the lily to turn violent and begin to spit thorns at the guests and workers.
  • Explosive Elixir: Apparently, he had also created an elixir that is capable of killing anyone that drunk it. It was used to kill the Unnamed Lamia, Frank, and finally he used it to commit suicide.

Appearances[]

Trivia[]

  • It has never been clarified how Quentin regained his arm after the incident in his youth. Although, it is most likely that his physical injury was eventually subject to recovery with the help of some magical means or even powers like healing.
  • Quentin's alias, "the Tallyman", is most likely a reference to The Tally Man, two supervillains from the DC Universe.
    • Despite being referred to as "the Tallyman", Quentin is never shown keeping tally of any of his doings. Presumably, he only used this title due to the familiarity of the magical nursery rhyme.
  • Although never directly stated, it can be presumed that Quentin was somehow involved with the creation of the Unseen, as Sunny was shown completing his tasks after his demise.
  • In the original series, there was a witch named Quentin.

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